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| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of Talk |
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| Richard Kenway | Edinburgh |
0131 6505245 |
Computer Simulation of Elementary Particles |
| Rebecca Crawford | STEMPOINT Scotland | 0141 3306396 | Can arrange talks in Scotland |
| Victoria Martin | Edinburgh | 0131 6517042 | |
| Alan Walker | Edinburgh | 0131 650 5237 |
Particle Physics for Scottish Schools (PP4SS) Exhibition |
| Chris Parkes | Glasgow & CERN | 0141 330 5885 +41 22 76 72309 |
It's the end of the world as we know it: The start of the LHC |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details/Title of Talk |
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| James Stirling |
Cambridge (but does talks in Northern Ireland) |
01223 337083 | Particle Physics and the LHC |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of Talk |
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| Chris Bowdery | Lancaster | 01524 61678 | The Higgs Boson and the Origin of Mass |
| Tim Greenshaw | Liverpool | 0151 7943383 | |
| Hywel Owen | Manchester - main contact | 01925 603797 |
From splitting the atom to cures for cancer: a tour through the world of particle accelerators |
| Roger Barlow | Manchester | 0161 275 4178 | High Energy Physics Today |
| Fred Loebinger | Manchester | 0161 275 4180 | Quarks and Gluons - The Story of Elemental Particle Physics |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durham | 0191 334 3653 | General Particle Physics Talks - suitable for 6th formers | |
| Pete Edwards | Durham | 0191 334 3782 | Talks suitable for key stage 3,4 and sixth form students Topics include: |
| The Big Bang Machine | |||
| Mined Over Dark Matter | |||
| What Are We Made Of? | |||
| The Dark Side Of The Universe | |||
| Nigel Glover | Durham | 0191 334 3602 | The hunt for the Higgs - suitable for 6th formers |
| Frank Krauss | Durham | 0191 334 3751 | General Particle Physics Talks - suitable for age 14 upwards |
| Peter Richardson | Durham | 0191 334 3764 | General Particle Physics Talks - suitable for 6th formers |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of Talk |
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| Susan Cartwright | Sheffield | 0114 222 4572 | A talk through the Universe (Key Stage 1 and 2) |
| Dark Matter the Stuff of the Universe | |||
| Diving for Neutrinos: Neutrinos and the origin of cosmic rays |
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| The Ideas of Particle Physics | |||
| Quantum Physics | |||
| Neil Spooner | Sheffield | 0114 222 4422 | |
| Lee Thompson | Sheffield | 0114 222 4577 | Particle Astrophysics Neutrino Astronomy Cosmic Rays Dark matter and ANTARES: Diving for WIMPs! |
| Chris Booth | Sheffield | 0114 222 3541 | |
| Ed Daw | Sheffield | 0114 222 4353 | |
| Stathes Paganes | Sheffield | 0114 222 4352 | |
| Davide Costanzo | Sheffield | 0114 222 4549 | |
| Sean Pailing | Sheffield | 0114 222 4270 | |
| Dan Tovey | Sheffield | 0114 222 3546 | |
| Vitaly Kudryavtsev | Sheffield | 0114 222 4531 |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Bailey | Cambridge | 01223 337434 | |
| Andy Parker | Cambridge | 01223 337324 | |
| James Stirling | Cambridge | 01223 337083 | Particle Physics and the LHC |
| Ed Copeland | Nottingham | 0115 9515 164 |
From Quarks to Galaxies |
| Anne Green | Nottingham | 0115 8467 902 | Searching for Dark Matter Is Cosmology a science? |
| Antonio Padilla | Nottingham | 0115 8467 903 | Parallel Worlds |
| Ian Kenyon | Birmingham | 0121 414 4627 | |
| Pete Watkins | Birmingham | 0121 414 4625 | |
| Cristina Lazzeroni | Birmingham | 0121 414 4614 | |
| Paul Newman | Birmingham | 0121 414 4617 | |
| Gary Barker | Warwick | 02476 523399 | |
| Steve Boyd | Warwick | 02476 573876 | |
| Tim Gershon | Warwick | 02476 523778 | |
| Paul Harrison | Warwick | 02476 572942 | |
| Yorck Ramachers | Warwick | 02476 573878 |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Alton | University of Wales, Swansea | 01792 295738 | |
| Graham Shore | University of Wales, Swansea | 01792 295737 | The LHC @ CERN - what do we hope to find and when? |
| Tegid Wyn Jones | University College London | 020 76797150 | Welsh language a speciality |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of Talk |
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| Helen Heath | Bristol | 0117 9288 714 | Small is beautiful: A look at size from us to the proton |
| Hunting in the Higgs: The large Hadron Collider at CERN and how it aims to discover the origin of mass |
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| Vincent Smith | Bristol | 0117 9288 740 | Quarks and Leptons: The Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics |
| Relativity and the Twin Paradox | |||
| Wave Particle Duality: Is the electron there when you are not looking? |
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| The Higgs Boson and other things we don't know yet | |||
| Matter and Anti-matter | |||
| What Time is it on Mars (How to measure time on earth and other planets) |
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| Nick Brook | Bristol | 0117 954 6877 | |
| Joel Goldstein | Bristol | 0117 928 8772 | |
| Greg Heath | Bristol | 0117 9255 624 | |
| Dave Newbold | Bristol | 0117 9288 770 | |
| Jonas Rademacker | Bristol | 0117 3317 904 | |
| Martin Lavelle | Plymouth | 01752 232729 | What's the Matter with Anti-matter? |
| From the Light Bulb to Quantum Computing - 100 years of Quantum Mechanics |
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| 50 years of strangeness | |||
| Chocolate, Mirrors and the Speed Of Light |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of TalK |
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| David Miller | University College London | 020 7679 7152 | The Sex-Life of the Proton |
| Cosmic Etiquette | |||
| Z, LEP and the Universe | |||
| Jon Butterworth | University College London | 07977 444137 | Atlas and the LHC |
| Nikos Konstanidis | University College London | 07789 976563 | Higgs Bosun |
| Mark Lancaster | University College London | 07855 472095 | The Unknowns of Particle Physics |
| Ryan Nichol | University College London | 07855 299171 | Particle Physics in Antarctica Cosmic Ray and Neutrinos |
| Ken Peach | Oxford University and Royal Holloway, University of London | 01865 273312 | Much Ado About Nothing - Particle Physics and the Vacuum |
| Nigel Smith |
The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
01235 445782 | Dark Matter and the Search for WIMPs in the UK |
| Chris Damerell |
The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
From Penguins to WIMPS: Travels of a Particle AstroPhysicist |
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| Bob Brown |
The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
01235 446216 | |
| Stephen Haywood |
The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
01235 446761 | What Makes the World Tick |
| William Murray |
The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
01235 446256 | The Search for the Higgs Boson |
| What You Need to Know About Quantum Mechanics |
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| Particle Physics Today | |||
| Mike Green | Royal Holloway University of London | 01784 443454 | What is the Matter? Where is the Antimatter? |
| Hugh Shanahan | Royal Holloway University of London | 01784 443433 | |
| Peter Kalmus | Queen Mary, University of London | 020 78825042 |
Particles and the universe Antimatter The forces of nature Mirror images, antimatter and time reversal |
| Paul Kyberd | Brunel University | 01895 266801 | Working at CERN |
| Darkness Visible Neutrinos and Conservation Laws |
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| CP Violation and the Origin of Matter | |||
| Steve Lloyd | 020 78825057 | The Data Deluge and the Grid | |
| Sanjaye Ramgoolam | Queen Mary, University of London | 020 78825047 |
String Theory and Hidden Dimensions of Spacetime Duality between Gravity and Light in String Theory |
| Elliot Leader | Imperial College London | 020 7594 7808 | |
| Ken Long | Imperial College London | 020 7594 7812 | |
| Igor Liubarsky | Imperial College London | 020 75947878 | |
| Todd Huffman | Oxford University | 01865273333 | If Particle Physicists are not really interested in particles, just what ARE they interested in? |
| Gerald Myatt | Oxford University | 01865 273381 | Dark Matter in the Universe |
| Hans Kraus | Oxford University | 01865 273361 | |
| Tony Weidberg | Oxford University | 01865 273370 | Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Quarks - But Were Afraid to Ask |
| Alan Barr | Oxford University | 01865 273636 | Atom smashing - the world's biggest experiment |
| Brian Foster | Oxford University | 01865 273323 | Superstrings Einstein's Universe |
| Nick Evans | Southampton | 023 80592093 | |
| Jonathon Flynn | Southampton | 023 80592093 | |
| Steve King | Southampton | 023 80592093 | |
| Stefano Moretti | Southampton | 023 80592093 | |
| Tim Morris | Southampton | 023 80592093 | |
| Chris Sachradja | Southampton | 023 80592093 | |
| Antonella De Santo | University of Sussex | 01273 678115 | The Big Bang Experiment |
| Fabrizio Salvatore | University of Sussex | 01273 678749 | |
| Simon Peeters | University of Sussex | 01273 678128 |
What is particle physics and why should we do it? Captain Neutrino |
| Darren Baskill | University of Sussex | 01273 872815 |